A Very Good Mushroom Hike Today

Today, we saw a Death Cap mushroom that was deadly poison and we saw a Honey Mushroom. We saw two white mushrooms. - Liam

This was all on a hike in Garber Park, which is behind the Claremont Hotel. This hike was sponsored by the Claremont Canyon Conservancy and was led by Bob Mackler, a very knowledgeable mycologist. Bob could answer many of Liam's questions. 

This first picture shows the Death Cap, a poisonous mushroom that was Liam's main goal to find today.  I could not get a better picture but it was greenish, and the gills were white. 

Here's the underside of another white mushroom we found, also a member of the amanita family, but not poisonous. Not edible, either. It would taste like a Band-Aid.
Here it is from the top:
Here's the junior mycologist himself.

Here's just a little of the huge oyster mushrooms we saw today.

Great Stuff

A lot of exciting stuff going on in the world of Liam. Liam FINALLY got his own model Southwest airplaine. 

The kids also got bunkbeds. So far, its been a pretty effective technique for getting them to go to bed and sleep.
Finally, we discovered some fungus growing right up the street and we pass it when we walk to school. Not sure what kind it is. We returned the fungus book to the library and are seriously hindered in our mushroom identification efforts by this turn of events.

Another Model Southwest Airport

Glory Be:

Liam loves model Southwest airplanes and model airports. Here's a good website for model airports.

The Big Fly Agaric

Happy New Year

We haven't posted in a while because of Christmas and parties and mushroom hunting. Liam got a camera from Santa and the pictures on this page, Liam took with his own camera. 

Here's a cute picture of his little brother:

This is a slime mold, probably Orange Jelly.
This is one of two fly agarics we saw today. Last week Liam and his dad saw several huge ones, as big as dinner plates.
We will post a few more in a minute. Liam has taken over 500 pictures so its tough to sort through them all. Happy New Year.

Mazes

All of a sudden, Liam loves mazes. He draws them (although I haven't figured out to put them up here) and we print them off the web for him to do. Here's a few good maze websites, in case you have the urge to do a maze.

Printable Mazes for Kids

Krazy Dad

ABC Teach

I bet with a little skill and the google, you can find more.

Veggie Tales

Liam loves Veggie Tales. Sometimes, he says, "I like the makers of Veggie Tales, because there is no killing." I know this is intended to please his mom. It does.